Claude Delisle
Claude Delisle (1644–1720; the name also appears as de l'Isle) was a French Geographer, cartographer and historian.
Claude Delisle
Konrad Westermayr · Adam Christian Gaspari, Christian Gottlieb Reichard (1802) Allgemeine geographische Ephemeriden, Band 10, Weimar: Landes - Industrie - Comptoir Retrieved on 25 November 2011. · Public domain
- Name
- Claude Delisle
- Born
- 5 November 1644
- Died
- 2 May 1720
- Place of death
- Paris
- Field
- Geography Cartography
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- historian · geographer · cartographer · censor
- Languages
- French
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Claude Delisle (1644–1720; the name also appears as de l'Isle) was a French Geographer, cartographer and historian.
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• Name — Claude Delisle • Born — 5 November 1644 • Died — 2 May 1720 • Place of death — Paris • Field — Geography Cartography
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Born in Vaucouleurs. on November 5 1644 from a physician father, he studied law at Pont-à-Mousson, became a lawyer before settling in Paris in 1674 and becoming a geography and history professor, later obtaining the post of Royal Censor. One of his students was Henri François d'Aguesseau, future Chancellor of France His main work was a universal history in 7 volumes published posthumously in 1731. He also authored a historical description of Siam Delisle had eleven sons. Amongst them figure: • Guillaume Delisle (1675-1726), geographer and cartographer • Simon-Claude Delisle (1676-1726), historian who continued the works of his father • Louis de l'Isle de la Croyère (1687-1741), astronomer and explorer • Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688-1768), astronomer, inventor of the Delisle scale
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Claude Delisle is recorded as historian, geographer, cartographer and censor.
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1644
Claude Delisle was born in 1644 at Vaucouleurs.
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Claude Delisle died in 1720 at Paris.
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